Great Notion Brewing Van Beer Hazy IPA

Van Beer Hazy IPA

 

Great Notion Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - New England / Hazy Regular
Score
7.35
ABV: 7.2% IBU: - Ticks: 9
Take a ride out of the Stratasphere with Van Beer. We dry hop this hazy IPA with only Strata hops to create aromas of strawberry, passionfruit, and cannabis. We make this to honor our favorite beer, the shift beer.
 

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7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Can at Bratislavka tasting. Hoppy aroma and taste, tropical fruit, light sweet, light to medium bitter. Medium to full body, hoppy fruity bitter sweet finish. Good.

Tried from Can on 21 Oct 2025 at 18:09


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Sample from can @ Bratislavka tasting. Head is thin, white, quick gone. Colour is shiny gold, hazy, opaque. Aroma is nice fruity, melon, citrus, pear. Taste is medium to full malty base, nice balanced harmonic bitterness, very fruity, pears, melon, bit lactic, medium carbonation, fully enjoyed.

Tried from Can on 21 Oct 2025 at 17:50


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Aroma has notes of gummy peach rings, cat piss. Taste is mildly to moderately bitter, finishing dry, with flavors like the aroma.

Tried from Can from Pilgrim's Market on 09 Mar 2025 at 02:22


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

This is a good one, and I don't really love the hazies, but this is among the upper tier of that style. Really nice fresh and pungent hop nose, fully of citrus and tropical fruit. Flavor is similar, with a nice breadiness from the malt. Zesty. Incredibly drinkable.

Tried from Can on 05 Mar 2025 at 00:56


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

16oz can from Brewers Haven. Hazy yellow pour, white frothy head recedes to thin coating. Aroma is fragrant, fruity, citrus, floral, minty. Taste comes in with a bracing zesty bitterness that instantly tingles the palate, a bit too much possibly (my palate may be affected by the flu I'm recovering from). Dry, chalky feel, grapefruit, pineapple with a really quick finish, except for the lingering buzz on the tongue.

Tried from Can at Brewer's Haven on 30 Dec 2024 at 04:22


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draft. Hazy amber beer with a cream head. Tropical fruit aroma. Tropical fruit and light melon flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Tropical fruit and light melon linger.

Tried from Draft on 05 Apr 2024 at 16:34


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

16oz can pours out hazy golden topped with a white head. Nose is nice sweet tropical fruit hops over ripe notes. Taste is more of the nice sweet tropical hops and a great end.

Tried from Can on 25 Feb 2024 at 03:44


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draft at The Halford. Pours hazy yellow-orange with off-white head that retains well and patterns well. Bright orange aroma and flavor. Solid yeast and malt support. Very juicy with grapefruit rind in the back half of the palate. Faint prickly pear at the end in the flavor.

Tried from Draft on 08 Sep 2023 at 22:42


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

(Tap) cloudy yellow colour with a small white head; aroma of grapefruit; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish; creamy palate

Tried from Draft on 15 Aug 2023 at 03:17